Juozas Karvelis (April 18, 1934 – April 12, 2018) was a Lithuanian politician. In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.

Biography

After attending school in Inkakliai from 1942 to 1944 and then in

Švėkšna Švėkšna is a town in the Šilutė District municipality, 21 km northeast of Šilutė, Lithuania. It is the administrative center of Švėkšna elderate. There are 29 streets in the town. In the western part of the town flows the river Šv ...

, near

Šilutė Šilutė (, previously ''Šilokarčiama'', german: link=no, Heydekrug), is a city in the south of the Klaipėda County, Lithuania. The city was part of the Klaipėda Region and ethnographic Lithuania Minor. Šilutė was the interwar capital of ...

, in 1949–50, he studied at the Lithuanian Maritime Academy in

Klaipėda Klaipėda (; ; german: Memel; pl, Kłajpeda; russian: Клайпеда; sgs, Klaipieda) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. The capital of the eponymous county, it is the third largest city and the only major seaport in Lithuania ...

from 1952 to 1954, continuing his studies at the Naval College of

Murmansk Murmansk (Russian: ''Мурманск'' lit. "Norwegian coast"; Finnish: ''Murmansk'', sometimes ''Muurmanski'', previously ''Muurmanni''; Norwegian: ''Norskekysten;'' Northern Sámi: ''Murmánska;'' Kildin Sámi: ''Мурман ланнҍ'') ...

. Karvelis studied at the

University of Vilnius Vilnius University ( lt, Vilniaus universitetas) is a public research university, oldest in the Baltic states and in Northern Europe outside the United Kingdom (or 6th overall following foundations of Oxford, Cambridge, St. Andrews, Glasgow and ...

in 1960–63. He worked in Murmansk in 1954–58, and then in

since 1959. He was Second Assistant to the Head of the Lithuanian Maritime Transport and Captain. He worked as a maritime captain at the trade port in Klaipėda in 1986–90. A member of

Sąjūdis Sąjūdis (, "Movement"), initially known as the Reform Movement of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Persitvarkymo Sąjūdis), is the political organisation which led the struggle for Lithuanian independence in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was es ...

, Karvelis became a member of the Fifth Seimas in 1990, being also a member of the Economic Committee. He did not seek re-election after 1992.

Family

Karvelis was married to Janina (b. 1934) and had three children.

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Biography
1934 births 2018 deaths Lithuanian politicians People from Tauragė District Municipality Place of birth missing {{Lithuania-politician-stub